Popova's Reflective Diary: Design Skills training: Strictly Come Dancing

In order to train my costume design skill I created a design for the Strictly come dancing project brief. The dance I chose was Passo Doble. My first model contained a long skirt, but then I decided to change it. Although there are some very long dresses used, a interesing design approach is to reveal bigger part of the legs in order to show the movement of the dancers. Looking throught images of different episodes of the show, I noticed there are two different approches to reveal the legs and the movement of the female dancer - first with two slips - one of each side(image 2) and one frontal slip (image 1), I chose the second option and used a big front asimetric slit which reveals the whole front side of the legs.

As I already mentioned in the research article of the dances, Paso Doble is a spanish dance which is related to the bull fights. As an inspiration to my sketch, I used the spanish painter Joan Miro who is most famous for using an element from one of his pictures to create the tourist logo of Spain. I referenced some of elements used in his painting to create one very Spanish designer which could represent the culture of the country among largest audience.